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Labour has pledged to back efforts to fast-track the government’s energy price cap legislation, which cleared its first parliamentary hurdle yesterday (6 March).
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No useful lessons can be drawn from other countries’ experience of implementing price caps, Claire Perry has told the House of Commons.
Everyone agrees that it is important to help those most in need, but identifying them can be difficult, and the help available can be a postcode lottery. Lois Vallely reports.
The utilities sector is one of the most “forward-thinking” for technology adoption, despite public opinion, according to recent research by Fujitsu.
Ofgem is to formally ban gas and electricity suppliers from issuing customers with bills for energy used more than 12 months ago.
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In a bid to make the billing process more transparent, Eon will change the way it bills its customers from 19 April onwards.
With a scandal in Northern Ireland and a damning NAO report for the rest of the UK, is the Renewable Heat Incentive reformable, or should it just be scrapped? David Blackman reports.
“Where we have concerns that suppliers are failing their vulnerable customers, we stand ready to take action”
Shell’s former vice president for downstream strategy and portfolio, Colin Cooks, has been appointed chief executive of First Utility.
Its financial results for 2017 saw profits dive, prompting Centrica to announce further job losses and cost cutting. Its share price has rallied, but has it done enough? Tom Grimwood reports.
The Energy Networks Association (ENA) has called on the public to ‘Be Winter Ready’ and report power cuts by calling the distribution network operator on 105, instead of alerting the supplier.
Renewable energy supplier Good Energy, which has had an advert banned for claiming its electricity contains no carbon dioxide, has said it can sometimes be “difficult to manage simplicity against detail”.
Keith Anderson has been appointed CEO of Scottish Power, an internal promotion from his combined
More than 30 per cent of consumers who switched energy supplier in 2017 did so away from the big six, in favour of small or medium suppliers, new Ofgem figures have revealed.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will assess whether the merger between SSE and Npower could significantly reduce competition in the supply of energy to domestic customers in the UK.
Drax Group has seen a rise in earnings despite the loss of £5 million due a fire at its Yorkshire power station which led to the temporary shut-down of two biomass units.
Not-for-profit Energy provider, Our Power has launched a new “ethical tariff” in the fight against fuel poverty.
Suppliers may face a higher borrowing costs and lower profits as a result of the
Bulb Energy has announced it will raise prices following “sustained higher prices in the wholesale gas and electricity markets,” it said in a statement.